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scully Posted:
That was before the gameplay tuneup. It’s POSSIBLE that Luck affects how often you’re hit with special attacks (but I doubt it).
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Posted On: 10/30/2009 11:01AM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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scully Posted:
MC Banhammer Posted:
You two would know better than I – and you’ve gotta remember, I’ve barely been around here three months – so I’m going to flail around a lot (probably in the wrong direction).
I was basing my thotz on Luck/Charisma from the Wiki.
LUCK “The more of this you have, the more Jesus loves you. It seems to influence how valuable the gifts that random Internet strangers send you are. Surprisingly, making many feel cheated, it does not improve your chances with the Gamble-Bot. It is possible that the random sections of attacks are affected by this. Increases the number of gifts you receive at rollovers. Good for characters that can’t stack Charisma.”
CHARISMA “This is the number that decides if you’re likable or not (more likable = more gifts). Increases the number of gifts you receive at rollovers.”
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Posted On: 10/30/2009 11:16AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Afterthotz Posted:
The bolded part isn’t true, or wasn’t last I heard.
Here is just one of many, many posts/threads where how it works is explained. |
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Posted On: 10/30/2009 11:26AM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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Base run on forums suggested by Dunatis: Denture Chat The Furry Farm Paranoid Panorama Something Lawful
Luck: 1 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 (checking just in case) # of deliveries: 11 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 4,542
Well, here we are. Sorry, ‘twas a busy weekend. It begins again. |
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Posted On: 11/03/2009 11:26AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck: 11 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 (confirmed) # of deliveries: 16 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 12,426 Afterthotz edited this message on 11/04/2009 11:09AM |
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Posted On: 11/04/2009 11:08AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck: 21 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 # of deliveries: 17 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 21,250 |
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Posted On: 11/05/2009 11:12AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck set at 11 and 21 the amount received was 1% more than the formula predicted (not too shabby) but with luck set at 1 it was 29% more than predicted, making that the largest error currently on the chart.
How sure are you that you didn’t have some other Junk already in your inventory that day? |
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Posted On: 11/05/2009 12:48PM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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man-man Posted:
Fairly sure. But it’s no problem to do another base run, just in case.
Log in to see images!”Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
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Posted On: 11/05/2009 7:28PM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Base run Flezz confirmed.
Luck: 1 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 # of deliveries: 12 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 4,882 |
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Posted On: 11/06/2009 11:13AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck: 31 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 # of deliveries: 17 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 29,803 |
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Posted On: 11/07/2009 10:49AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck: 41 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 # of deliveries: 16 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 35,091 |
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Posted On: 11/09/2009 10:55AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Damnit… all of these runs are just proving that I’m still pretty far wrong Log in to see images!
Since you started the 60593 runs, the predictions have been wrong by 20%+ every time… |
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Posted On: 11/09/2009 11:07AM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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Luck: 51 Charisma: 1 # of unique forums pwn’ed yesterday: 4 Cred gained yesterday: 60593 # of deliveries: 17 Total value of deliveries (Frugality 10): 47,148 |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:01AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Afterthotz Posted:
So much for the 40K cap, eh? |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:06AM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Depends how much of a random factor there is Log in to see images!
Too many runs align near-perfectly with a 40K cap to toss the idea out completely… |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:09AM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
You also have to realise we got that theoretical cap back on page 5, when running four level 20’ish forums ended with a cap of 160k’ish , which we then divided by four = 40k’ish per forum.
Latest run divided by four is still way below that cap.
I’ts almost time for another informal pow wow to determine what we think we know, what we don’t, and a practical way to go about testing said theories.
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:22AM | View Afterthotz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Afterthotz Posted:
I dunno, I think your current plan of running with a static set of cred, changing only one variable at a time, is a good one. This allows for other people to run the same set changing a different variable. I’ll see if I have an alt I’m not using for anything right now who can do the same, maybe modifying Charisma and leaving Luck at 1.
One thing I think would be nice to see is to try to narrow down the random factor. Run the exact same stats for a while and see the range of randomization which results. |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:26AM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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Got one who can work with Luck 0. That should be informative. |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 11:29AM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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Afterthotz Posted: Brainfart… 40K per forum, so when you run 4, getting just over 40K is not a challenge to the cap…
The fact that Banhammer queried it made me bumume it was actually a problem Log in to see images!
MC Banhammer Posted:
If we could get down to Luck 0 and Charisma 0 I’d be rather interested in the results. But even without 0 Char, 0 Luck would let us probe the effect of Charisma very nicely.
MC Banhammer Posted:
Also a fine idea. A large random factor would explain all those embarrbumingly large deviations from predicted results (which, incidentally, seem to be annoyingly common with the specific runs Afterthotz is doing right now), a small random factor would make it easier to eventually figure things out though. man-man edited this message on 11/10/2009 2:55PM |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 2:51PM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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Sorry for causing you a problem. I don’t know any of these machanics and am just jumping on the spading now ‘cause I’m bored.
I’ve run those fixed forums with Luck 0, Charisma 1 and Luck 1, Charisma 1, and I’ll post the results tomorrow. Then we’ll see where to go from there. |
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Posted On: 11/10/2009 3:02PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||